Major funding for quantum light source project announced

Sunday, April 15, 2018
by Jonathan Baugh

Major funding for quantum light source project announced

Our $2.7 million project with Defence Research and Development Canada was announced on Thursday, April 12 by Honourable Bardish Chagger, Minister of Small Business and Tourism and our local Waterloo MP, at  a press conference hosted at RAC. It is a collaborative project, headed by Jonathan Baugh, with co-PI's Prof. Michael Reimer and Prof. Zbig Wasilewski. Dr. Francois Sfigakis is the project manager. He is a Research Assistant Professor (Chemistry) working in Baugh's group.

Dr. Baugh and Dr. Sfigakis giving a tour of the lab

The event was followed by tours of the Reimer and Baugh labs. In the picture above, MP Bardish Chagger and MP Raj Saini can be seen holding semiconductor chip samples. The story was also covered in local and national media. Here are links to some stories:

Motherboard / Vice story

Signal magazine

Waterloo chronicle

The Record

Chemistry website story

UW web story